Chemical used industrially to make floor stripper, paint thinner and other solvent
products. It is illicitly used as a substitute to gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.
Bursaries of £1,200 a year for around 12,000 vulnerable young people, made up of children
in care, care leavers and those on income support (teenage parents, young people with
severe disabilities, teenagers living away from their parents and young people whose
parents have died). Schools, colleges and training providers will then be able to
award discretionary bursaries to students who face genuine financial barriers to staying
on in education and training to help with costs such as transport, food or equipment.
Replaces the Education Maintenance Allowance.
Second generation of mobile phone networks. Differed from their predecessors by allowing
digitally encrypted phone conversations and data services for mobiles (text messaging).
Variety of processes in which material is joined or solidified under computer control
to create a three-dimensional object, with material being added layer by layer.